Finally got an answer from Dec customer service. It seems that
the combination of Open3D, DU 4.x, dxsession and nw* doesn't work.
Their advice: uac p 0. Which I was already doing. Ah well.. at
least they said I shouldn't worry about it.
Original message follows:
>
> I'm having problems running Polycenter Networker apps on
> a few of my machines. The circumstances are this:
>
> The machines are alphastation 250 4/266's.
>
> One runs 4.0, one runs 4.0b, although the problem also
> happened under 3.2d-1.
>
> If the user is running a dxsession, both nwadmin
> and nwbackup (the two we usually use) give pages
> and pages of unaligned access errors. This is enough
> to hang the machine, at least temporarily. Cntl-c,
> cntl-o, cntl-d, in some combination will shut up
> the errors *and* cause the GUI to come up.
>
> uac -p 0 makes the error messages go away, of course.
>
> Under a dtsession, the GUI's start just fine, with
> no errors.
>
> I've tried this with version 3.1, 3.2, and 4.2a
> of the nsr software. Same results for all.
>
> I do not have a similar problem running any version
> of the nsr software on a dec 3000/600, dec 3000/300, or
> alphaserver 1000a.
>
> Networker is running as SingleServer, in this case.
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> Amy Skowronek
> Harried Sysadmin
> NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
> amy_at_aloha.nascom.nasa.gov
>
Received on Tue May 06 1997 - 23:30:38 NZST